Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scary-movie-6-official-trailer-in-theaters-june-12.1450417/

predicting that this thread is locked by the end of the day

[killamajig]

Don't worry Asses of Dreams is there to scold people 

I'm aware of the gag, see the previous thread I linked.

But there's still a line to walk and the post I quoted read to me like it was going a bit far in insulting the way the poster who fell for it usually posts and what they had to say. At the end of the day, the thread title is INTENDED to trick people and make them upset enough to react given the high emotions surrounding the subject matter. Point out when someone fell for it and have a laugh, sure. But the "why read when you can post big text" felt like a bit much.

Asses crying over Pandas warning..
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-love-al-generated-music.1450003/#post-152003518
  User warned: didn't read the OP - the thread is about Weird AL and not AI

I'd say this joke has diminishing returns personally but it wasn't a shot at you for making it, I assume you weren't aware of the other thread when doing so. Honestly, I just remembered that thread when reading this one and posted a link to it, no deeper meaning to me doing so. No need to call their thread worse or anything like that...

That said, isn't the whole point that the OP is suppose to give itself away? People are getting official warnings on their account for "not reading the OP", so if you're saying you were trying to ALSO trick them with the OP, I think those warnings are in poor taste. (Which, to be clear, is on the mods, not you)

Especially the one Panda got, "User warned: didn't read the OP - the thread is about Weird AL and not AI". Like, let's be real here, this thread IS about AI. This isn't a thread meant to talk about Weird Al. It's a thread meant to make people think about AI and react to the notion that someone might like AI. This whole thread has been weird about this from the jump imo, bad vibes. Like people actually getting warnings for falling for a trick, those people then having others insult them and call them bots (which is nonsensical because if someone was a bot they wouldn't fall for the AI/Al trick to begin with).

They should have read the OP instead of rushing in with the usual Ctrl+C, Clt+V post with no additional thoughts.

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I agree and the extent of the reaction should be "lol you got tricked" or making jokes about the thread itself, not "OFFICIAL WARNING. READ THE OP NEXT TIME" alongside users insulting the way they normally post and accusing them of being a bot. The reaction here is going into holier than thou territory about not falling for an intended trick.

Even saying that, let's also acknowledge that according to the OP themselves, they wrote the entire post with the intention of not giving away the trick. So even if you do "read the OP", you have to know who Weird Al is and recognize the names of the songs being posted. If you were unfamiliar because you, say, aren't the exact age and nationality that would lend oneself to being familiar with Weird Al, then you could still read the OP and think they were posting AI videos. At which point the issue isn't "didn't read the OP", it's "failed to understand the OP's joke" or "didn't watch the videos and do research on the things listed in the OP", and neither of those should be getting this reaction.

But I also recognize that is a conversational dead end on this forum... and the weekend is over anyway, so it's time to move on.

[Rendle]

"Communication is dead" said the fuckwit who decided to copy-paste a news article in a thread they didn't read to passively aggressively imply anyone who endorses AI music is complicit in the murder of children.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scary-movie-6-official-trailer-in-theaters-june-12.1450417/

predicting that this thread is locked by the end of the day

I like that they're all going "a pronoun joke in 2026? That's so dated!"

Bitch, they/thems were basically not around before 2020

[benji]

Stock markets really only make sense if you strip out any sense of decency or morality out of the equation.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/platner-sat-for-lengthy-interview-with-antisemitic-conspiracy-theorist-said-he-was-%E2%80%98longtime-fan%E2%80%99-of-his-show.1450075/page-2#post-152014618

Why?

I am of the personal opinion that the foreign smoke that has surrounded him for a long time is incredibly suspicious.


That two of the three major 2016 Presidential candidates had ties to the USSR dating back the 80's, and that they both had a shared enemy in Hilary Clinton.
...
That both him and Donald Trump had suspicious associations with the USSR dating back to the 1980's

The suspicious ties/associations being:
1. Bernie, the socialist, traveled to the socialist paradise like millions of other socialists... and that's it. He traveled to a foreign country.
2. Trump, the failed real estate businessman, tried to get the Russians to let him put TRUMP on some building he would have never built. The deal never went anywhere because even socialists aren't dumb enough to do business with Donald Trump.

and that all this was happening as Russia/Putin was beginning the process of their 21st century fascist imperial conquest starting with Georgia in 2008, then Crimea, and now to Ukraine today.

That Hilary Clinton is one of the few long term experienced US politicians who could correctly and clear-headedly assess and confront all of this stuff, and is a big part as to why so much effort was taken to deny her ascension.

Guy forgets that the Obama-Clinton foreign policy was premised on the idea that George W. Bush was too distrustful of Putin. Even after Chechnya and invading Georgia. They openly mocked Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a priority less than 18 months before Crimea. Era posters really not really beating the accusation that their historical knowledge starts during Obama.

[BananaBlast]

Jesus christ, how much of an insane, sanctimonious, virtue-signaling prick do you have to be to try and claim making a pun about "AI" is actually still harmful? That's like getting offended over a pun about turning on a washing machine, working the fields, cutting the grass, or gambling.

[benji]

Don't worry Asses of Dreams is there to scold people 

I'm aware of the gag, see the previous thread I linked.

But there's still a line to walk and the post I quoted read to me like it was going a bit far in insulting the way the poster who fell for it usually posts and what they had to say. At the end of the day, the thread title is INTENDED to trick people and make them upset enough to react given the high emotions surrounding the subject matter. Point out when someone fell for it and have a laugh, sure. But the "why read when you can post big text" felt like a bit much.

Asses crying over Pandas warning..
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-love-al-generated-music.1450003/#post-152003518
  User warned: didn't read the OP - the thread is about Weird AL and not AI

I'd say this joke has diminishing returns personally but it wasn't a shot at you for making it, I assume you weren't aware of the other thread when doing so. Honestly, I just remembered that thread when reading this one and posted a link to it, no deeper meaning to me doing so. No need to call their thread worse or anything like that...

That said, isn't the whole point that the OP is suppose to give itself away? People are getting official warnings on their account for "not reading the OP", so if you're saying you were trying to ALSO trick them with the OP, I think those warnings are in poor taste. (Which, to be clear, is on the mods, not you)

Especially the one Panda got, "User warned: didn't read the OP - the thread is about Weird AL and not AI". Like, let's be real here, this thread IS about AI. This isn't a thread meant to talk about Weird Al. It's a thread meant to make people think about AI and react to the notion that someone might like AI. This whole thread has been weird about this from the jump imo, bad vibes. Like people actually getting warnings for falling for a trick, those people then having others insult them and call them bots (which is nonsensical because if someone was a bot they wouldn't fall for the AI/Al trick to begin with).

I agree and the extent of the reaction should be "lol you got tricked" or making jokes about the thread itself, not "OFFICIAL WARNING. READ THE OP NEXT TIME" alongside users insulting the way they normally post and accusing them of being a bot. The reaction here is going into holier than thou territory about not falling for an intended trick.

Even saying that, let's also acknowledge that according to the OP themselves, they wrote the entire post with the intention of not giving away the trick. So even if you do "read the OP", you have to know who Weird Al is and recognize the names of the songs being posted. If you were unfamiliar because you, say, aren't the exact age and nationality that would lend oneself to being familiar with Weird Al, then you could still read the OP and think they were posting AI videos. At which point the issue isn't "didn't read the OP", it's "failed to understand the OP's joke" or "didn't watch the videos and do research on the things listed in the OP", and neither of those should be getting this reaction.

But I also recognize that is a conversational dead end on this forum... and the weekend is over anyway, so it's time to move on.

[yetanotheraccountholyf]

The bases were reportedly evacuated with U.S. soldiers hiding in hotels. Footage of that particular base burning was shared by one in a hotel. Iran says this is why they are targeting some hotels with drones.

many people are saying this!

[benji]

That must be it, the guys behind Hezbollah would never deliberately target civilians or other easy targets.

[kaleidoscopium]

Side-eyeing anyone commenting that this trash looks "good" when it opens with a fucking dated ass pronoun joke in 2026 "haha pronouns amirite? So funny guys!!!" alongside that trailer description:
"The Wayans are back to cancel the Cancel Culture."
🤮
Of course, considering this is Paramount why am I even surprised at this "attempt" at quote on quote "comedy" it's the same kind of shit you constantly hear from hacks in the Austin comedy scene or any number of washed up comedians like Dave Chappelle.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scary-movie-6-official-trailer-in-theaters-june-12.1450417/#post-152034985

[HaughtyFrank]

Honestly a little shocked about the pronouns joke, considering how outgoingly supportive Marlon Wayans is for his transgender son and LGBTQ people in general. But I guess they really want this movie to sell towards the general audiences.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scary-movie-6-official-trailer-in-theaters-june-12.1450417/post-152037766

Is it not possible to support LGBT and still think it would be funny if someone was correcting pronouns while getting stabbed? Also people always seem to assume that if you support one thing you need to support all of it. Maybe he thinks Trans is fine but thinks non binary is bullshit. Even some trans people think that 

[benji]

Who will risk their account by asking if that's a reasonable moment to focus everything on someone's misgendering you?

[Mediocre Lager]

Oh no! I don't wanna get side-eyed!

How terrible.

EDIT: This is the worst top of page ever and my shame is immense.

[kaleidoscopium]

Side-eyeing the fuck out of people saying this looks good when this trailer starts with a fucking pronoun joke and then the "I'm a republican so I'm supposed to be racist" and "I think all white people are racist" bit.

You ain't sly. I can fucking see you.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scary-movie-6-official-trailer-in-theaters-june-12.1450417/page-2#post-152038762

THE SIDE EYES ARE COMING

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/over-a-year-later-did-the-literary-world-end-up-not-caring-that-cormac-mccarthy-had-groomed-a-teenage-girl.1450600/

"Why wasn't this dead guy canceled?"

[benji]

If I remember the previous Scary Movie's correctly, the main characters are generally shown to be quite stupid and bad people rather than upstanding paragons of virtue. They would wield pronouns or "cancel culture" like the cast of Always Sunny rather than Bluey. So the complaints seem to be about depicting anything negatively?

Fittingly, the originals even have a bunch of "Mac is gay" type jokes. How can that be when Marlon Wayans is pro-LGBTQIA2S+?

[cRumB]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/harrison-ford-receives-the-2026-lifetime-achievement-award-from-sag-thank-you-george-lucas-thank-you-steven-spielberg.1450489/

[benji]

Side eyein everyone not immediately condemning the fact that these guys are even allowed to make another movie after this right-wing shit. There's a direct line from Bernie visiting the USSR to Scary Movie 1 and 2 to Gamergate to Trump. 

[Straight Edge]

"no politics" Neogaf are jacking each other off over "trump liberating Iran"

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/harrison-ford-receives-the-2026-lifetime-achievement-award-from-sag-thank-you-george-lucas-thank-you-steven-spielberg.1450489/

In 2003, Ford flew to France to personally deliver Roman Polanskis Oscar to him.

He made a promise to deliver it to him because they worked together on Frantic.

Yeah, can you imagine how bad it would have looked if he broke a promise to a rapist pedo

A movie that was produced and released eleven years after Polanski fled the country to avoid child rape charges, just so we're all on the same page.

Jesus the purity police are really out in force in this thread. If the worst you can dig up on a man who has been acting at the highest level in Hollywood for over 50 years is that he HANDED OVER an oscar to Polanski, I think he's led a pretty decent life.

He handed an Oscar to a man convicted of drugging and sodomizing a thirteen year old girl and then evaded justice.

Fuck this Pedophile supporter. Anyone who supports him should feel shame. Your nostalgia for Indy and Han does not justify this.

[HaughtyFrank]

Harry Potter fan confirmed

 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I guess there's also a slim chance she's a huge fan of Radcliffe in "Now you see me 2"

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natedrake-sony-santa-monicas-new-game-set-within-the-god-of-war-universe-lead-character-revealed-more-action-focused-gameplay.1450120/page-3#post-152013442

User Banned (2 Weeks): Sexist joke

Herman will make you play Horizon even when you're not playing Horizon :-p

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natedrake-sony-santa-monicas-new-game-set-within-the-god-of-war-universe-lead-character-revealed-more-action-focused-gameplay.1450120/page-4

 User Banned (3 Weeks): Downplaying concerns around sexism, previous action for boys club behavior. Post reverted for context.

Sounds boring but we'll see.

Really talking about something is safe with all the vile sexism every time a main lead happen to be female.

Well from Sony this gen you mostly get female protagonists lol.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natedrake-sony-santa-monicas-new-game-set-within-the-god-of-war-universe-lead-character-revealed-more-action-focused-gameplay.1450120/page-7#post-152015812

 User banned (2 weeks): Misogynistic rhetoric

This is weird IMO. Not going to lie I'm not confident in this or Intergalactic

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natedrake-sony-santa-monicas-new-game-set-within-the-god-of-war-universe-lead-character-revealed-more-action-focused-gameplay.1450120/page-11#post-152021659

  User Banned (Permanent): Trolling, antagonizing a fellow member, and downplaying concerns around sexism over a series of posts causing a thread derail; severe related prior

Oh god yes!



They would never dare unless she's too busy to do it.



I'm quite capable of spelling the word "all" if I meant to say "all". Y'all ain't slick.

See? "All"!

Nice try. We're not stupid. If intent was different, you would have said "Some men"...

Unless the standard going forward is going to be that unless we say "ALL men", or "ALL women", or "ALL Gay people", or "ALL Asian people", then it's not bigotry/stereotyping, because we were not talking about ALL. Or is that not allowed, and its only ok when we are talking about men?

[kaleidoscopium]

As someone who has to correct people all the time about my pronouns, that joke actually made me giggle, lmao. Hearing there was a pronoun joke I thought it was gonna be way worse then it was but it was so tame (at least for me it was). So looking forward to this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scary-movie-6-official-trailer-in-theaters-june-12.1450417/page-2#post-152042113

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natedrake-sony-santa-monicas-new-game-set-within-the-god-of-war-universe-lead-character-revealed-more-action-focused-gameplay.1450120/page-7#post-152015812

 User banned (2 weeks): Misogynistic rhetoric

This is weird IMO. Not going to lie I'm not confident in this or Intergalactic

Not being excited for a Sony game is now misogyny 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-containment-thread-ot.1075830/page-888#post-151882819

 User banned (2 weeks): inflammatory generalizations

Vicki is like the literal embodiment of the "fuck you, got mine" mindset that a lot of Hispanic people in America have.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-phil-spencer-retiring-sarah-bond-out-matt-booty-promoted-microsoft-ai-exec-asha-sharma-named-new-xbox-boss.1442185/page-37#post-151625707

 User banned (1 month): Misogyny

Looking at her LinkedIn makes no sense to me. 36 years old and multiple VP and exec level titles, barely 2 years at Microsoft...

...like, how?

Feb 20, 2026

What the hell? She's only 36?
Yeah… how the fuck do you get to those levels at 36 if nepotism isn't in the mix?

Last posted on Feb 27.

[benji]

[benji]

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[benji]

[Mediocre Lager]

What is a dildo dude?

A dude who promotes the usage of marital aides?

A dude made of dildos?

A dude who uses dildos?

Here on The Bire we ask the important questions.